I have a ix4-200d cloud edition and the bios update from usb failed. I too have repeated reboots . I have read many posts forum and have been successfully able to console into the machine. Ive followed everybody's commands for tftpboot, etc. everytime I get the bad magic error after about 5%. ive tried the files from ix4-200d-3.2.6.17887-recovery

IPLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! any assistance would be greatly appreciated. ive spend hours surfing the web and I don't think there is much of anything that I haven't tried that ive found so far

'Bad Magic Number' means here that the uImage header found at address 12000000 in flash has a wrong magic number, which probably means that either you didn't write a valid uImage to this address, or it is overwritten by some other action. What are the exact commands you used to flash the firmware?

You are flashing it at another address as where u-boot tries to read it. And u-boot also uses a bigger size. (That size is not really important, as long as it's 'big enough'. The uImage header is read *after* it is copied to ram, and contains the real size.)

Now you have two possibilities:

Change the address for the initrd in the u-boot environment. (printenv, setenv and saveenv are the keywords, together with 'help')

Flash the images on the place where u-boot expects them.

Don't know where you got your flash instructions. If they are explicitely for the ix4-200D, then some point in time Iomega changed the flash division. And of course there is a reason for that. The flash is 32MB, and u-boot reads it up to 0x2b8000+0x300000=0x5b8000=5996544 ~6MB.The other 26MB is used to contain the firmware which is meant to be installed on the harddisk. I guess that for the CE edition this was narrow, for which reason 'they' removed some slackspace from the lower addresses. Although that won't give more than a few hundred kB.

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